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She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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University Teacher
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.
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